can we dish a little?

[bajaespuma]

A missing link, GE's last Top Loading Built-in model. Guessing this is 1963, pink tub has turned blue, maybe even offered in the same model year as two of their new Front Loading models (coming later). These things were tanks, but, as I remember them, they did a good job and were quiet for their youth.

 

[bajaespuma]

Notice the wash cycle length.

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Ken

Thanks for the post. For some inexplicable reason, even though I love their immediate predecessors, this is the style
of GE Dishwasher that I love the most. Something about the
minimalist timer dial, I suppose. Do you have any material
that speaks to these models with the little boomerang
power shower option? Great Dinnerware too!

 

[tomturbomatic]

We had two Mobile Maid dishwashers. The earlier one with pink interior had two pre-rinses, wash and 3 after rinses. The later one with the blue and white interior, with Power Shower & 3 cycles had this shorter regular cycle with one pre-rinse and only 2 after rinses. That must be a misprint to call them pre-rinses. The second one, while far more beautiful than the earlier model never quite washed as well. Cook ware that would have been competely cleaned in the first one would be more likely to have specks of soil remaining.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Dinnerware

Forgot to ask. Does anyone know anything about this pattern?

 

[gadgetgary]

Another wonderful brochure....

Interesting and so informative.
Thanks so much~!

 

[bajaespuma]

Looks like the Arabia dinnerware that was made in Finland at the time. Ours was white with a blue band around it that you will see in some of the ads I'm going to scan and post.

I wouldn't know about their washing ability. My Mother was one of those who felt it necessary to wash the dishes before putting them in the machine. Running the dishwasher must have been a sanitizing ritual ( a dish-micvah?!???!??!!!!) for her. I remember her telling a story of going over to my Aunt Gloria's house once (yes, Gloria) and opening her dishwasher (it was one of those beautiful old KitchenAids with the 3 colored buttons and the dial on the bottom panel) and finding it full of dirty dishes, rotting food bits and cockroaches. From that point on, she never really trusted machines to wash her dishes properly.

 

[toggleswitch]

Seems like mom was traumatized.......

two or three words come to mind:

Rinse and Hold

--- or -----

Rinse Only

 

[bajaespuma]

She didn't believe in it. In fact, she never bought a dishwasher again with more than one cycle. She preferred to break her fine china and crystal by hand and since she basically washed the dishes before they went in the machine, she had no use for any other bell or whistle.

Now she's at that age where the dishwasher is only used occasionally as a drying rack. She washes everything by hand and complains as her fingernails are slowly deteriorating. I've given up.